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First of all I wish to thank Robin (RobinF) for his U.A. on yesterday's image - much appreciated.

I had intended to post the colour original of Armstrong's Oilcan today. Since receiving one hell of a wigging from the Rustmeister himself, for thoughtlessly breaking Rule 6, paragraph 4c of the RAS handbook (THOU SHALT NOT UPLOAD OIL IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM !!), I have thought better of that intention, decided to mend my ways and am uploading this instead.

Alongside the colliery railway sidings at Beamish Museum, among a stash of part-complete boilers from narrow-gauge steam railway engines, old cranes and assorted historical industrial iron and steel artefacts that have spent more years on the scrapheap than I have had pints of Guinness, lies this pair of simple metal containers once used for I know not what. In fact I was chasing shadows last Monday afternoon, preparing for the onset of Shadow Saturdays (which will replace the long-abandoned theme of Pub Signs in September) and only realised later how useful a file of pre-prepared rust could be!
Please note that there is some unidentifiable debris at the bottom of one of the containers; this is in accordance with Rule 1, Paragraph 1 - THOU SHALT NOT CLONE OUT THE GROT.

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I assume that in spite of Rule 6, paragraph 4c (quoted above) it is still permissible for the photographer (or in certain specialised photographic genres the model) to be well-oiled . . .

Great post narrative, beautifully supported by this fine bucket of 'RUST'. Please enlighten me, "What is so appealing about rust?" I have sat many seconds trying to get my head around the idea of capturing 'rust'. And as usual I am in a total quandary. "I shall have to trawl my own archives to see if I had at some stage, an ingrained craving for rust?"

Don't do it , Nathan !!
There's a lot of us here who were normal photographers once, and after viewing Mick's world, have become lost, forever wandering the alley-ways, docks, derelict houses and other locations of neglect and decay in search of that elusive image of something once beautiful, now in ruin.

Quote: There's a lot of us here who were normal photographers once, and after viewing Mick's world, have become lost, forever wandering the alley-ways, docks, derelict houses and other locations of neglect and decay in search of that elusive image of something once beautiful, now in ruin.

You were certainly well oiled when you wrote all this.
Not necessarily when you took this great abstract.
And all ican say is I promise to wash my hands and take the camera next IMO I go behind the house.
Only the scrap heap is on the north side which means rust must be brought into glorious light as you have done here!